The memorandum was added to the report of the governmental committee charged with studying the constitutional amendments necessary to permanently settle the suffrage question. The committee comprised all the chairmen of parliamentary parties in the Second Chamber, including Kuyper. He included this memorandum with the report because his view differed from the majority in several respects. Kuyper’s vision was guided by the conviction that the Second Chamber—as a representative body of the people—should reflect the whole nation. However, he regarded the concept of universal suffrage as individualistic, insofar as an individual voter can only represent the individual voter. A nation is not merely the sum total of individuals but an organism brought about by divine ordinance. Suffrage must likewise be introduced in organic fashion. Since national life manifests itself in households and society, Kuyper took the view that suffrage should be accorded to the heads of household and to the self-employed who participate in public life through their profession or station.

The memorandum was addressed to Her Majesty the Queen as head of the government and was included at the end of the report as the first of the final four memoranda. The pagination of the report was not continuous; all the memoranda were paginated separately.